December 8, 2000 – Terror Attack in Hebron

Rina Didovsky, 39, a resident of Bet Haggai, was killed in a shooting attack near Kiryat Arba on a Friday morning. The mother of six and Kiryat Arba schoolteacher was killed on her way to work. She was buried on Friday, December 8, in Jerusalem?s Har Menuchot Cemetery.

Eliyahu Ben-Ami, 41, a resident of Otniel, was killed in the Friday morning shooting attack near Kiryat Arba. He was driving teachers from the Southern Hebron Hills area to Kiryat Arba when shots were fired from a parked car. He was gravely wounded in the attack and died later in the day in Hadassah Hospital, in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem. He was laid to rest on Saturday night, December 9, 2000, in the Rechovot Cemetery. He leaves behind a wife and two daughters.

IDF soldier Staff Sergeant Tal Gordon, 19, of Jerusalem, was killed in a shooting attack against an Egged public bus that was traveling on the Jericho bypass road on Friday afternoon. To be laid to rest on Sunday, December 10, 2000, in the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem.

Source: “Victims of terror since start of al-Aqsa Intifada on September 29, 2000.” Historical Society of Jews From Egypt, www.hsje.org